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OWENS: 4 TV stations fight sale before FCCContinued from B1It is Buck Owens’ ownership of the radio stations that forms the basis for the opposition of the other television stations to his buying KDOB.Petitions filed two months ago before the FCC by KGET-TV Channel 17, KERO-TV Channel 23 and KBAK-TV Channel 29, all of Bakersfield, and KMPH-TV Channel 26 in Visalia say they are concerned with the economic and media clout Buck Owens would have if he were able to have both a radio and television station in the same town.The FCC discourages single ownership of radio and television stations in the same city, but that policy is relaxed when a station is in bankruptcy.The four television stations opposing the sale allege that Dorothy Owens planned to go into bankruptcy — which she filed under Chapter 11 on Oct. 24, 10 monthsafter the station began broadcasting — so Buck Owens could realize a long-standing goal to buy a television station in Bakersfield.Chapter 11 allows a business to continue to operate while it tries to resolve its debts through the bankruptcy court.The brother and sister have declined to comment on the sale. KDOB’s bankruptcy attorney, Bruce G. Landau of Beverly Hills, also declined comment Wednesday.Other recent offers to buy KDOB have been made by Ricklis Broadcasting Co., the owner of KADY-TV Channel 63 in Oxnard, but those offers have been substantially less than what Buck Owens has offered, according to Ricklis president John Huddy.Huddy, however, characterized Ricklis' offers as “pretty generous and well above the norm” for bankrupt stations.
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Bakersfield Californian
Bakersfield, California, US
Thu, Mar 01, 1990
Page 24
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